BLM Chicago openly displays its Marxist goals
Those goals would be obvious, that is, if the MSM was actually reporting on this sort of thing.
Here’s the official BLM statement on the events leading up to the widespread Chicago looting. It’s a fascinating document. First, it tries to frame the shooting of a 20-year-old man (they only refer to him as a “young person”) – an incident in which police allege that they were shot at first – as some sort of police brutality for no cause at all in which “the young person ran away, rightfully fearing for his safety in this dangerous interaction with racist armed police.” But local news reports say the cops had received a call of an individual with a gun, and that “Latrell Allen, 20, faces two felony counts of attempted first-degree murder in connection with the incident, along with one felony count of unlawful use of a weapon.” And a rumor was also spread on social media that a 15-year-old had been killed.
More from the Chicago BLM statement:
This morning, Mayor Lightfoot held a press conference. In a predictable and unfortunate move, she did not take this time to criticize her officers for shooting yet another Black man. Lightfoot instead spent her time attacking “looters.”
Note the scare quotes around the word looters. That will be explained in a moment:
The mayor clearly has not learned anything since May, and she would be wise to understand that the people will keep rising up until the CPD is abolished and our Black communities are fully invested in.
Note that Mayor Lightfoot is a black woman and a member of the left herself. She’s just not leftist enough for BLM (seems to be open season these days on black women in positions of power, doesn’t it?)
Furthermore, from BLM:
Contrary to Mayor Lightfoot’s position, Black lives are and always will be more important than downtown corporations who siphon Tax Increment Financing (T.I.F.) money, while avoiding taxes, and exploiting the labor of Black and Brown Chicagoans. These corporations have “looted” more from our communities than a few protesters ever could, yet the Mayor reserves her anger for the latter. We will remain in the streets until our demands are met.
Pure Marxist twaddle, combined with a threat.
More:
Others in the media have been quick to condemn attacks on “our city” and play up racialized fears for the city’s white residents. These commentators seem to believe that the immense wealth that has been hoarded in downtown Chicago is in some way all of ours. The South and West sides have seen no benefits to this hoarding…When protesters attack high-end retail stores that are owned by the wealthy and service the wealthy, that is not “our” city and has never been meant for us.
Stores are “hoarders” and the goods belong to the people, not the wealthy kulaks. This is the BLM-Chicago line:
“I don’t care if someone decides to loot a Gucci or a Macy’s or a Nike store, because that makes sure that person eats,” Ariel Atkins, a BLM organizer, said. “That makes sure that person has clothes.” …
“That is reparations,” Atkins said. “Anything they wanted to take, they can take it because these businesses have insurance.”
That last statement is especially interesting, because I’ve heard it before as a justification for theft and/or arson (and Atkins’ comments also assume that the looters are poor people down on their luck, rather than organized criminal gangs). Aside from the moral deafness displayed, there’s an economic deafness as well, on the part of people who find such arguments convincing. Insurance rates will go up in a neighborhood where looting has occurred and the police are unable to control it or have been ordered not to control it. When insurance rates go up, businesses will avoid the neighborhood – and they will be avoiding it anyway because of the history of looting and the danger itself. The left would, of course, prefer to compel businesses to be in these neighborhood and risk all. The idea of cause and effect doesn’t operate in leftist la-la land.
We’ve seen this movie before, and we know how it ends. But that’s for those who are aware of history.
OT: Roger L. Simon is no longer at PJ Media and is now blogging at Epoch Times.
Huh?
“(seems to be open season these days on black women in positions of power, doesn’t it?)”
Besides Best and leftist Lightfoot, who do you have in mind?
Cicero:
I mean the leftists eating their own. Despite their rhetoric, being a woman, a black (in Lightfoots’s case, a lesbian), and on the left does not matter if you’re not towing the far far FAR leftist line. No protection – it’s the Reign of Terror, left on left.
I meant that Lightfoot and Best are in the news today. I doubt they are the only ones, but that’s enough for a single day.
Perhaps you thought I meant the attack was coming from the right. That is not what I meant at all.
Will they come after a BIPOC trans “woman?” If so they are really “serious” about purity and “justice.”
So the pressure will now be on Kamala Harris, the now-declared VP candidate, to toe the BLM line.
Well, okay, they say it’s not “their” city – fair enough. Split Chicago along the river line as I sort of suggested the other day, set up border checkpoints and there you go. I really hope this is just some silly faction within BLM Chicago as a whole, because otherwise, I feel pushed toward some very ugly conclusions.
Oh come on Philip. just go there and get it over with.
Sundance to Butch.
Use enough dynamite?
The way BLM has been directed to undermine and destroy the structure of leftist cities indicates to me that we are entering a new phase of political engagement. It reminds me of the last few minutes of basketball games where obvious fouls are committed to stop the play and slow the clock down, so at this time I think the BLM and those who direct them have a good idea that Biden is just as bad a candidate as Hillary was, even with Harris and if they can’t steal the election with mail-in ballots they are set to burn down more cities, no more funny hats and screaming crazies, like Ferguson, let’s burn it down.
We can sure see why Barak O. decided to live somewhere than in Chicago and New York is on its way to becoming the East Coast squalid San Francisco so perhaps there are still some people who don’t own multiple homes in those cities and want to return to some sort of reasonable stability. Electing full blown equal-opportunity leftist officials and hiring diversity law officers has not worked out so well this year.
I keep hearing, in my mind the sound track of the movie ‘JAWS’ and feeding this BLM~Progressive shark is not going to make it go away.
By the time the politico’s realize they been had, it will be too late for them…
Did you feel the ground shift? Pay attention: BLM protestors are now actively pointing guns at motorists to prevent them from going about their business. Loaded guns in their hand, pointing at drivers, safety’s off, discretionary trigger control at the option of the hostile party. BLM is claiming that lawful police self-defense actions are just cause for rioting and looting. BLM is claiming that looting and property destruction is simply a case of just reparations.
This is their next step and it’s hardly being commented on.
“BLM protestors are now actively pointing guns at motorists to prevent them from going about their business” – Aggie
Having now established, by their imposition of their narrative over the facts in so many prominent cases, that ANY black person killed by the police is automatically, and retroactively, innocent of any crime or provocation, they have no reason not to move on to their next step.
Conservative Black speaker, Adventist Hermes Justin Wilson.
Makes all of the points that sane people recognize.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnh3Ekg3ho8
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h/t commenter at the LI post Neo linked:
https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/08/chicago-black-lives-matter-leader-declares-looting-gucci-and-macys-is-reparations/
Sooo – if Antifa and BLM destroy enough businesses, does that mean we can consider the reparations bill paid in full and close that topic?
Update on the Chicago shooting.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2020/08/11/officers-involved-in-englewood-shooting-hadnt-yet-been-assigned-body-cams-prosecutors-say/
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/08/blm-advocates-looting.php
“As with other far-left groups, BLM does not hide its true colors. It just relies on the press to misreport them.”
— or cover them with a pillow until they stop moving, as Iowahawk puts it.